Celebrating International Women's Day

Uniting together to think, act and be gender inclusive!

International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. International Women's Day (IWD) has occurred for well over a century, with the first​ ​March 8​ ​IWD gathering supported by over a million people. Prior to this the​ Socialist Party of America, United Kingdom's Suffragists and Suffragettes, and further groups campaigned for women's equality. 

Northcote High School will be marking International Women’s Day with a week of events celebrating women, and how important gender parity is!

Monday

• Art installation activity – students writing about a woman that inspires them
• Q&A discussion panel with Lidia Thorpe (Greens MP for Northcote), Kate Bullen (International Women’s Development Agency) Cheryl Durongpisi (Melbourne musician) and Jane Lange (Assistant coach, ALFW Melbourne)

Tuesday

• Art installation in the library, incorporating students writing, origami, photos and flowers.
• Herstory Hackathon - workshop on making Wikipedia contributions to increase the representation of women as authors, editors and in Wikipedia content

Wednesday

• Casual Clothes Day (gold coin donation) - Dress to Express (yourself)
• Bake sale

Thursday

• International Women's Day Quiz
• Musical performance

All week we will have purple ribbons for sale by donation to show your support. Funds from this and the bake sale will go to support the International Women’s Development Agency who are doing incredible work to advance and protect the rights of women and girls locally and abroad in places such as Myanmar and Cambodia (read more here: https://iwda.org.au).